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Spain
Association	Federación Española de Deportes de Hielo
General manager	Maurizio Mansi
Head coach	Luciano Basile
Assistants	Miguel Baldris
Captain	Alejandro Carbonell
Most games	Salavador Balnola (88)
Top scorer	Iñaki Salegui (53)
Most points	Iñaki Salegui (88)
Team colors
IIHF code	ESP
Ranking
Current IIHF	30 2 (27 May 2024)
Highest IIHF	29 (2011–12, 2014)
Lowest IIHF	37 (2005–06)
First international
	Spain 6–4 Belgium; (Luchon, France; 21 December 1923)
Biggest win
	Spain 38–0 Turkey; (Johannesburg, South Africa; 27 March 1992)
Biggest defeat
	Netherlands 19–0 Spain; (Las Palmas, Spain; 13 March 1978)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	34 (first in 1977)
Best result	22nd (1977)
International record (W–L–T)
	100–134–13

The Spanish men's national ice hockey team (Spanish: Selección de hockey sobre hielo de España) is the national men's ice hockey team of Spain. The team is administered by the Spanish Ice Sports Federation, itself a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). As of April 2020, the Spanish men's national program is 31st on the IIHF World Rankings and has 135 registered players. The men's national team currently competes at the IIHF World Championship Division II, Group A level.^[2]

History

On 10 March 1923,^[2] Spain joined the IIHF after the Spanish Winter Sports Federation was founded in the same year. After building an artificial rink in Madrid, Spain, they entered their first international tournament in late 1923. Spain won their first international game against Belgium in the Challenge de Haute–Garonne tournament held in Bagnères-de-Luchon, France. They lost their next game in the tournament to France.^[3]

In 1924, Spain competed in the Ice Hockey European Championships held in Milan, Italy. During their first game against Switzerland, two of Spain's seven players were injured. Due to this, Switzerland agreed to play with only five players allowing the game to continue. Switzerland ended up winning 12–0. Spain was forced to forfeit their second game against Sweden due to the injuries suffered by their players. Sweden had also agreed to play with five players.^[3]

After the European Championships, Spain entered the Coupe de Davos in Davos, Switzerland. Days before the tournament, Spain had upset Switzerland 4–0. The tournament had 12 teams broken into four groups with Spain being placed in group two along with Switzerland and Germany. Spain lost to Switzerland, 6–0 and to Germany, 7–0. Spain also lost to Germany's second team, 2–0 but avoided being in last place by beating Italy, 4–0. On 1 January 1925, Spain played Germany's second team again, winning in double overtime 3–1. After beating Germany, Spain went on a Swiss tour winning three of the games they played. Spain played in the Challenge de Haute–Garonne for the second time in January 1925. During the tournament, they defeated Belgium's second team 4–1 and tied France 3–3.^[3]

In 1926, Spain again competed in the European Championships held in Davos, Switzerland. In their first game against Belgium, Spain lost 5–0. They also lost their second game to Czechoslovakia (9–2). In the consolation pool, Spain tied Italy 2–2 and lost to Poland, 4–1.^[3]

Spain has competed in the IIHF World Championship Division II since it began in 2001. During the first year of the tournament in 2001, Spain defeated South Africa, Iceland, Australia and New Zealand. However they lost to South Korea preventing Spain from finishing in first.^[4] In 2002, Spain finished in third place in Group B after defeating Bulgaria, Iceland and Luxembourg and losing to Yugoslavia and Lithuania.^[5] During the 2003 version of the tournament, Spain defeated South Africa, Mexico and Australia and lost to Yugoslavia and South Korea. Spain finished in third place in Group A.^[6] Spain hosted the Division II tournament in 2004 and finished fourth place in Group A by defeating Israel and Luxembourg. Spain lost to China, Croatia and Australia.^[7] 2005 was a down year for Spain as they finished in fifth place in Group B with only two points. Spain's only win came against Iceland while they lost to Serbia and Montenegro, Belgium, Israel and North Korea.^[8]

In 2006, they lost to Serbia and Montenegro, Romania men's national ice hockey team and twice to Bulgaria while beating South Africa for their lone win. They finished in fifth place in Group A for the second straight year.^[9] In 2007 they defeated Bulgaria, Turkey and Serbia and lost to Belgium and Croatia. Unlike the prior two years Spain finished in third place with nine points.^[10] In 2008, Spain finished in third place by defeating Australia, Iceland and Mexico and lost to China and New Zealand.^[11] Spain won three games and lost two in 2009, their three wins came against Mexico, Bulgaria and South Africa while they lost to South Korea and Belgium. Spain finished in third place with nine points.^[12]

Spain was ranked 34th in the IIHF World Rankings in 2009. In 2010, Spain rose in the rankings to 30th and competed in Division II of the 2010 IIHF World Championship. They finished first in their group at the tournament and hence got promoted to Division I for the first time in their history.^[2]

Honours

IIHF World Championship Division II
- Winners: 2010, 2014 (B), 2018 (B), 2023 (A)

World Championship record

Year	Division		Position		GP	W	D	L
Year	Tier	Div.	Ov	Div.	GP	W	D	L
1977	3	Pool C	22nd	5th	6	1	0	5
1978	3	Pool C	23rd	7th	7	1	0	6
1979	3	Group C	24th	6th	7	2	0	5
1981	did not participate
1982	3	Group C	23rd	7th	7	1	0	6
1983	3	Group C	23rd	7th	7	1	1	5
1985	3	Group C	24th	8th	7	0	0	7
1986	3	Group C	24th	8th	6	2	0	4
1987	did not participate
1989	4	Group D	28th	4th	4	1	0	3
1990	4	Group D	28th	4th	4	0	2	2
1991	did not participate
1992	4	Group C2	27th	1st	5	5	0	0
1993	3	Group C	29th	5th	5	1	0	4
1994	4	Group C2	29th	2nd	5	3	1	1
1995	4	Group C2	32nd	3rd	5	4	0	1
1996	4	Group D	31st	3rd	5	2	1	2
1997	4	Group D	31st	3rd	5	2	0	3
1998	3	Group C	32nd	8th	5	0	2	3
1999	4	Group D	33rd	1st	4	3	1	0
2000	3	Group C	31st	7th	4	1	1	2
2001	3	Div II	31st	2nd	5	4	1	0
2002	3	Div II	33rd	3rd	5	3	0	2
2003	3	Div II	33rd	3rd	5	3	2	0
2004	3	Div II	35th	4th	5	2	1	2
2005	3	Div II	37th	5th	5	1	0	4
2006	3	Div II	37th	5th	5	1	0	4
2007	3	Div II	34th	3rd	5	3	0	2
2008	3	Div II	34th	3rd	5	3	0	2
2009	3	Div II	33rd	3rd	5	3	0	2
2010	3	Div II	30th	1st	5	5	0	0
2011	2	Div I	26th	5th	4	1	0	3
2012	4	Div II A	30th	2nd	5	4	0	1
2013	4	Div II A	34th	6th	5	0	0	5
2014	5	Div II B	35th	1st	5	5	0	0
2015	4	Div II A	32nd	4th	5	2	0	3
2016	4	Div II A	30th	2nd	5	4	1	0
2017	4	Div II A	34th	6th	5	1	0	4
2018	5	Div II B	35th	1st	5	5	0	0
2019	4	Div II A	32nd	4th	5	2	0	3
2020	4	Div II A	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[13]
2021	4	Div II A	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[14]
2022	4	Div II A	30th	4th	4	1	0	3
2023	4	Div II A	29th	1st	5	5	0	0
2024	3	Div I B	27th	5th	5	1	0	4
2025	3	Div I B

All-time record

Correct as of 10 February 2024.^[15] Overtime and game winning shot victories and losses are counted towards wins and losses. Teams in italics are defunct.

Opponent	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD
Australia	18	10	3	5	78	51	+27
Austria	1	0	0	1	4	14	–14
Belgium	18	7	0	11	75	67	+8
Bulgaria	15	6	1	8	63	74	–11
China	11	4	0	7	36	55	–19
Chinese Taipei	1	1	0	0	11	0	+11
Croatia	13	3	1	9	36	51	–15
Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1	2	9	–7
Denmark	6	0	0	6	8	42	–34
England	2	1	1	0	14	10	+4
Estonia	4	1	0	3	9	26	–17
France	8	0	0	8	15	70	–55
Georgia	2	2	0	0	7	1	+6
Great Britain	5	1	0	4	17	46	–29
Greece	3	3	0	0	37	2	+35
Hungary	9	0	0	9	22	82	–60
Iceland	11	9	0	2	64	27	+37
Italy	4	0	1	3	3	26	–23
Israel	9	7	1	1	76	17	+59
Japan	2	0	0	2	5	17	–12
Kazakhstan	2	0	0	2	0	31	–31
Lithuania	4	0	0	4	6	28	–22
Luxembourg	4	4	0	0	67	1	+66
Mexico	8	7	0	1	62	17	+45
Netherlands	8	1	0	7	17	63	–46
North Korea	5	3	0	2	32	20	+12
Norway	1	0	0	1	3	18	–15
New Zealand	7	7	0	0	89	12	+77
Poland	2	0	0	2	1	9	–8
Romania	10	0	0	10	12	86	–74
Scotland	2	0	0	2	7	9	–2
Serbia	9	5	0	4	37	33	+4
Serbia and Montenegro	8	1	2	5	15	37	–22
Slovenia	1	0	0	1	0	12	–12
South Africa	7	7	0	0	67	10	+57
South Korea	14	4	3	7	52	54	–2
Sweden	1	0	0	1	0	5	–5
Switzerland	1	0	0	1	0	12	–12
Thailand	1	1	0	0	15	2	+13
Turkey	5	5	0	0	79	4	+75
Ukraine	1	0	0	1	0	7	–7
Yugoslavia	3	0	0	3	2	29	–27
Total	247	100	13	134	1 145	1 186	–41